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I G W. BILLINGSQ VAPOR BURNER.

Patented Feb. 25, 1896.

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ATTORNEY.

UN TED STATE PATENT OFFICE,

GEORGE W. BILLINCS, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO THOMAS ERIANT, T. STEWART WHITE, THOMAS M. PECK, FELIX RANIVILLE, DANIEL MCCOY, MCGEORGE BUNDY, JOSEPH J. TUCKER, LOIS A. GIDDINGS, FRANK A. STONE, AND RERTRAND P. KENYON,

OF SAME PLACE.

VAPOR-BURNER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 555,070, dated February 25, 1896.

Application filed October 11, 1894. Serial No. 525,647. (No model.)

To all whom/it mayconcern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. BILLINGS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vapor-Burners; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in vapor-burners for gasoline-stoves, and its object is to provide the same with certain new and useful features, hereinafter more fully described and particularly pointed out in the claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a vertical section of a device embodying my invention on the line 1 1 of Fig. 3; Fig. 2, a side elevation of the same, and Fig. 3 a plan view of the same with parts broken away to Show the construction.

Like letters refer to like parts in all of the figures.

A represents the usual stand-pipe, into the lower end of which the gasoline is admitted in any convenient manner. B is a cap having a needle-valve 0 arranged in the line of the axis of the stand-pipe and crossing said line at right angles. Said cap B serves as a vaporizer and is heated by means of the rectangular fire-chamber I, cast integral with said cap and above the same. At the side of the fire-chamber I is apocket 1' formed by a vertical wall and inclined hood Or plate, and opposite the open Side of said pocket is a needlevalve K, having its Orifice directed toward said pocket, whereby a jet of gasoline or vapor escapes into the same.

G is.a flat circular plate provided at intervals with burner-tips H, from which the combustible mixture escapes. Beneath this plate G is a chamber F to distribute the said mixture to said tips, and beneath this distributing-chamber F and opening into the same is a curved mixing-chamber E where the air and vapor are mixed as they escape from the induction-passage D, which passage opens into the side of the chamber E and extending beneath the distributing-chamber F terminates with its open end opposite the orifice of the needlevalve 0. The axes of said induction-passage and needle-valve O are substantially in the same horizontal line and the lower side of said passage is inclined downward toward its open end, which terminates close to the stand-pipe and above the drip-cup of the same, whereby any liquid in said passage flows into said cup. An opening J in the dividing-wall connects the fire-chamber I with the pocket I, and openings J J are made in the upper plates of said chamber and pocket, and a series of openings J connect the distributing-chamber F with the fire-chamber 1, whereby the latter is'supplied with the combustible mixture to heat the cap B. The distributingchamber F has a flattened side F, which forms one side of the chamber I, which is secured thereto with suitable screws or other fastenlngs.

By the construction shown I am able to make the chambers F and E and the passage D integral, and these together with the plate G can be made of iron or other cheap metal.

The cap B, having the needle-valve bosses,

the chamber 1, and pocket I, is required to be of brass Or other like metal, and by the construction shown is made compact and cheap and requires but little machine work to construct and finish it.

By turning on the gasoline at the valve K and igniting the same the cap B is quickly heated and the gasoline therein vaporized. When this is done the valve 0 is opened and the vapor at once flows into the passage D carrying with it a current of air, which vapor and air escape into the mixing-chamber E and impinge upon the middle of its concave vertical wall and are thus broken into oppositelyfiowing currents, which impinge upon the concave ends of said chamber, where they are again deflected backward and turned into said oppositely-flowing currents. The mixture is thus thoroughly commingled and incorporated before it escapes to the distributingchamber F, from whence it escapes to the burner-tips II.

B y arranging the mixing-chamber below the plane of the distributing-chamber and by forming said n'iixing-chamber with one concave side and one convex side and with concave ends and extending the same a considerable distance laterally the mixed vapor and air are very evenly distributed within the chamber F and equally supplied to the tips ll. As the vapor and air fill the chamber I they flow through the openings .1 and J and are ignited in the pocket I and chamber I. Flames will also escape at the openings J J, which will communicate to the vapor escaping from the tips II. The valve K may now be closed and the flames in the chamber I will be maintained by the escape of mixture from the openings J. The burner is thus lighted from the original starting-flame, and by closing and opening the valves K and G alternately the burner may be turned oi'f and on as often as occasion requires, and will be automatically relighted. \Vhen the valve K is again opened, the vapor escaping therefrom is lighted by the flame in the pocket I, and then the valve 0 may be closed, shutting off the burner and chamber R. The flame issuing from the valve K now plays upon the interior of the pocket I and maintains the heat of the cap and sustains the generation of vapor. The flames in the chamber I and at the tips Il may now at any time be again autoinatically relighted, as in the first instance, by opening the valve G. If desirable the valve K may be left open, in which case the vaporization is accelerated by the flame of the vapor escaping therefrom and impinging within the pocket I.

hat I claim is 1. The combination with the burner-plate, distributing-chamber and induction-passage of a vapor-burner, of a mixing-cha1nberhaving one concave and one convex side and con cave ends, said mixing-chamberhavingcommunication with said induction-passage and extending laterally beyond the exit end thereof, substantially as described and for the purposes set forth.

2. In avapor-burner, the combination with the burner-plate, the distributing-ehamber beneath the same, and the induction-passage beneath said distributingchamber, of the mixing-chamber located opposite the exit end of said induction-passage and extending laterally beyond the same, said mixing-chamber being also located beneath one side only of said distributing-chamber and having one concave and one convex side and concave ends, substantially as described and for the purposes set forth.

3. In a vapor-burner, the combination of the stand-pipe, means of supplying liquid thereto, a n'iixing-chamber having openings in its end wall, a fire-chamber attached to the end wall of said mixing-chamber and having communication with the interior of the latter through said openings, a pocket, located at the side of said fire-chamber and h'avin g communication therewith and also having direct communication with said stand-pipe, said firechamber and pocket being arranged directly GEORGE W. BILLINGS. Witnesses:

LE IS E. FLANDERS, LOIS MoULToN. 

